Wow, love all the bees and their metallic looks.


I was fixing up a new hosereel in the back yard this afternoon, this guy didn't like being disturbed and scuttled off behind a fencepost. Once i'd finished fixing the hose up, i sprayed him with the hose to get him to move out into the open. He didn't like it too much.


Took a few shots, 7D + 70-300L and 36mm tube, iso800 and f/9. Popped the onboard flash and he got used to it eventually, managed to get 9 shots relatively still while i turned the focus ring.


First real shot at focus stacking using Hugin, used the raw-converted jpgs. Good thing i didn't use raw-converted tiffs, I got out-of-memory errors with 4GB ram and 500mb swap, so i turned the unused 32gb of my ssd into swap space...


Didn't turn out too good on first go, so second try I masked out all the obviously blurry areas from each shot, took an hour or two, and looks a lot better. Not sure what's going on in the top right, i'll have another crack tomorrow morning...


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I hate spiders.


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(and just for those who are squeamish, here's a 100& crop from the 7th in the stack)


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